Erwin Wurm

Nato / Born
Bruck/Mur, Austria / 1954

Vive e lavora / Lives and works
Vienna and New York

Selected Exhibitions


2007 - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2007 - Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
2007 - Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France (solo)
2007 - Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden (solo)
2007 - Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2007 - Erwin Wurm, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2007 - Affinities- Deutsche Guggenheim, 1997-2007, Guggenheim in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2007 - All about laughter: role of humors in contemporary art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007 - I am future melancholic, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007 - Il était une fois, l’École d’Arts Plastiques de Vitrolles, Vitrolles, France
2007 - Salon de la Kakanie, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2007 - Hamlet, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
2006 - All the Best. The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2006 - Le mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2006 - Simultan, zwei Sammlungen österreichischer Fotographie, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2006 - Display of UBS Collection, Tate Modern, London, UK
2006 - Art and Play, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2006 - Adorno was wrong with his ideas about art, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2006 - Home, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
2006 - Disziplin der Subjektivität, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
2006 - Keep a cool head, MUMOK Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2006 -  The artist who swallowed the world, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (solo)
2006 - Erwin Wurm. New Sculpture, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (solo)
2006 - The Idiot, Sala de Exposiciones Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2006 - I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Rose Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA / Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA (solo)
2006 - SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, USA (solo)
2006 - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2006 - CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (solo)
2005 - Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2005 - Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
2005 - Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2005 - Drive. Automobili nell’Arte Contemporanea, GAM, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Bologna, Italy
2005 - Erwin Wurm, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy (solo)
2005 - Glue your brain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2005 - Erwin Wurm, Peggy Guggenheim Collection,Venice, Italy (solo)
2005 - Rundlederwelten, Gropiusbau, Berlin, Germany
2005 - In the Line of Flight, China Millenium Art Museum, Bejing, China
2005 - Erwin Wurm, Museo do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2005 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2005 - I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA (solo)
2005 - Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2005 - Am I a House?, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2005 - The Idiot, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2005 - Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (curators: Jérome Sans, Nicolas Bourriaud)
2005 - Snow white and the seven dwarfs, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander (curator: Udo Kittelmann)
2005 - Spielräume, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Zentrum Internationaler Skulptur, Duisburg, Germany
2005 - Situation Comedy: Humor in recent art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii/ Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago/ Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2005 - Sweet Temptations, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, Switzerland
2005 - Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
2005 - Scultura leggera Light Sculpture, 503 Mulino, Vicenza
2005 - Munch revisited, Museum am Ostwall, Ausstellungshalle der Stadt Dortmund, Germany
2005 - Polaroid als Geste, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
2004 - Seville International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville (curator: Harald Szeemann)
2004 - Photo and Video Sculpture by Erwin Wurm, KvadraT Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia (solo)
2004 - I love my time, I don’t like my time, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2004 - European Dream, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico (curator: Pamela Echeverria) (solo)
2004 - TRAC Tecnologie e Ricerca Artistica Contemporanea, Palazzo Fichera, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Catania, Italy (solo)
2004 - International Biennial Foundation of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
2004 - Arti & Architettura, 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
2004 - Skulptur. Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2004 - Ich will, dass Du mir glaubst!, 9. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany
2004 - Orozco - Wentworth - Wurm, FotoGrafia - International Rome Festival, The Andersen Museum, Rome, Italy
2004 - Soziale Kreaturen – wie Körper Kunst wird, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
2004 - Global World - Private Universe, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
2004 - Von Angesicht zu Angesicht – Das Antlitz des Menschen in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
2004 - Porträts. Picasso, Bacon, Warhol …, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2004 - Vision einer Sammlung, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2004 - Farbige Plastik, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
2004 - Le proche et le lointain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d’art contemporain, Bignan, France
2004 - LASTWINTERSPRINGNEVERCAME, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 - Paisaje después de la tormenta [Landscape after the storm], T20 Gallery, Murcia, Spain
2004 - Dessins et des autres, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
2004 - Exposition collective de sculpture, Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
2004 - Dessins et des autres – part II, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2004 - A 20 h Prêts à prêter 1, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
2004 - Close Reading #3, objectif_exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
2004 - Art Unlimited, Art 35 Basel, Switzerland
2004 - Krinzinger Österreich, Künstler der Galerie (A), Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2004 - Virtual Frame, Kunsthalle Wien project space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
2004 - Haus und Körper, Galerie Francoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany
2004 - 4ème Biennale de la Photographie et des Arts visuels, Centre Culturel “Les Chiroux”, Liège, Belqium
2004 - Brooklyn Euphoria Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, USA
2004 - Grotesque, burlesque et parody, Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
2004 - Galerie Espai Lucas, Valencia, Spain (solo)
2004 - Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2004 - Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2003 - European Dream, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Col San Angel, Mexico City / Casa ITESO-Clavigero, Guadalajara, Mexico (curator: Pamela Echeverria) (solo)
2003 - Erwin Wurm – One Minute Sculptures/Orifice, Melbourne International Festival, ACCA Australian centre for Contemporary Art / Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
2003 - Erwin Wurm videos, RISD - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA (solo)
2003 - One Minute Sculptures, Erwin Wurm, Mairies des 13e et 14e arrondissements, FRAC-PACA (Fonds régional d’art contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur), Marseille, France (solo)
2003 - Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2003 - Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (solo)
2003 - Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
2003 - Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2003 - Galeria La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2003 - Hilfe, Graz, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria (solo)
2003 - ZKM , Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
2002 - Fat Survival – Handlungsformen der Skulptur, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (solo)
2002 - Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (solo)
2002 - Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (solo)
2002 - Erwin Wurm, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (solo)
2002 - Sculptures with embarrassment, Studio K, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
2002 - Erwin Wurm Videoarbeiten 1989-2002, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Budapest, Hungary (solo)
2002 - Galerie Art:Concept, Paris, France (solo)
2002 - Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2002 - Vendanta Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
2002 - Galerie Häusler, Munich, Germany (solo)
2001 - Performance Drawings, Drawing Centre, New York, USA (solo)
2001 - Sleeping for two months, Centre pour l´Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2001 - Videos 1991 – 2001, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2001 - Fat car, MAMCO Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2001 - Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2001 - Galeria Espai Luca, Valencia, Spain (solo)
2001 - Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2001 - Galerie The Box, Turin, Italy (solo)
2000 - Photographers Gallery, London, England (solo)
2000 - F.R.A.C. Limousin, Limoges, France (solo)
2000 - Feelings, L´Ecole des Beaux-arts, Rouen, France (solo)
2000 - Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2000 - Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (solo)
2000 - Galerie Art : Concept, Paris, France (solo)
1999 - Project wall, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1998 - Institute of Visual Arts, UW, Milwaukee, USA (solo)
1997 - Me, me fat watching TV, Galleria The Box, Turin, Italy (solo)
1982 - Neue Skulptur, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
1982 - Triumph Skulptur, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
1981 - Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria (solo)